The last thing I would call Dark Souls is ‘outdated.’ the game has a mysteriousness and atmosphere that permeates every bit of it, which is exactly where games like Nioh miss the mark. I’d take Dark Souls over Nioh and it’s other copycats any day.

I dig Nioh a ton, but imo it just isn’t as satisfying, moving and engaging as Souls is to me. Both great games though, and great review!

Sorry you feel that way mate.

It reminds me a lot of Mass Effect one. Cool ideas that didn’t fully form. Some missed opportunities, some bad designs, but a solid starting point. Only now, we aren’t really being introduced to a whole new world like we were in ME1, and we have three whole games with fond memories to unfairly compare this one to.

Name one thing except TWO MAJOR PARTS OF THE GAME DESIGN...come on dude

You do not remember the other games properly. Rose colored glasses.

It might be fan fiction, but it’s a very good fan fiction that I can’t put down. It’s alright because the combat and exploration is better than any of the previous games!

It’s a fine game. I might even go as far as to say it’s a great game. People are bagging it because it isn’t WITCHER 4 IN SPACE! Not everyone is going to love it, and that’s fine, but the hate its been getting is unfair IMO.

Really? It’s hardly portable because of its size, doesn’t last long, has only 1 game, feels extremely incomplete a game system, and the Wii U ports have worse graphics than they had on the Wii U (Splatoon “2" is ugly as shit, and Mario Kart isn’t looking good either). Mine is already getting dusty and I’ve had it less…

Good because it’s a quality system that they should’ve pushed harder and fixed up a little bit over here. The mistakes they made with the system weren’t even massive ones. They just shot themselves in the foot a lot.

Maybe you should ask straight people you know in real life why they aren’t gay. Isn’t it a little immersion breaking to walk up to anyone and screw them just because YOU want to? And here people are complaining about the faces not looking realistic, thats nothing compared to the expectation of having writing and…

I believe the LGBT community needs to take a step back and remember who their friends are. The team at BioWare has done more to include and respectfully represent homosexuality in their games than any other major AAA company/franchise I can name. Not only do deliberately include LGBT romance options, but these…

That’s adhering dangerously close to the idea that sexuality is a choice.

If I roll a female, that wants to romance a male, or a female, why limit which characters I can do that with anyway?

That’s a baseless assumption. How do you know who they are marketing to?

Adding options is “hijacking?”

because if you don’t they don’t release them on PC in the first place. :|

I’ll take a shoddy port over not having it on PC at all, tbh.

Aesthetics > graphics.

Here’s the problem a numerical rating faces though. Let’s say somebody were playing through two games back to back. They really enjoyed the first game and it had very few flaws. They give it a 10/10. Now, they play another game in which they have the most fun they’ve ever had, but every hour or so there’s times…

Platinum Games made the brave choice to put technical performance above graphical candy. For once graphics served the game and not vice versa. Is NieR: Automata the prettiest game in the world, hell no. Is it one of the smoothest open-world action RPGs and arguably one of the best ever made - yes, yes it is.